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Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Handmade Christmas Crackers

Have a go at these Handmade crackers, you can really personalise them plus you get to choose an individual gift for all of your guests.

Supplies:

Holly Berry Bouquet Speciality 12x12 paper

toilet roll holders

ribbon

pines and poinsettias stamp set

Inks

cracker snaps

Joke/riddle

paper hats/ masks

adhesive snail, sticky strip and stampin dimensionals

Paper trimmer and perforator

Method:

Trim one edge of your paper so it is 20cm long,giving you an oblong.

Make two perforated lines paralel to the short edge, 10cm from the edge of both the short sides.

Glue the cracker snap in place along the long edge, leaving enough space for the sticky strip.

Put a length of sticky along the edge of the paper.

Place the three toilet roll holders along the edge, opposite the sticky strip.

Roll the paper around the toilet roll holders. When you near the edge pull off the backing for the sticky strip and stick the paper down.

Line the toilet roll holders so that the middle one is central.

Pull one of the end rolls out slightly (around 2 finger widths) and then gently squeeze the gap between the rolls using the length of your pointing finger and your thumb. Pull it out a bit more and squeeze it again. Repeat this a few times. Now, gently, twist the end roll slightly then push the two rolls together again.

Now it's time to fill your cracker with your gifts and jokes etc.

Once you have everything inside repeat the previous step to close the other half of the cracker.

Tie the ends with ribbon and then embellish with your own stamped images, beads, buttons, ribbons or whatever might take your fancy.( I only had whisper white ribbon so I coloured it with the real red stamping pad.)

The colours that co-ordinate with the paper pack are cherry cobbler, real red, chocolate chip, very vanilla, so safron and wild wasabi.